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Well thoughts.....

16/1/2021

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The Covid virus is obviously preventing us doing any practical work in the garden but it also leaves me with thinking time. There is a well in the garden which supplied water to the house. The existing well head with its windlass was installed in 1990 based on an old photo of the well at Whitehall in Cheam.
 
The Honeywood well-head is now in need of major repair and it has caused me to think about what the original was like. The well at Whitehall is about more than 20m deep so there would have been the need for a windlass and a long bucket rope. This would be quite unnecessary at Honeywood where the well is only 1.2m deep. My first thought is that there was a hand pump like the one on the corner of Pound Street and West Street. However, it seems that this sort of pump only became common in the 19th century and the well is almost certainly much older than that. So what was used? I have not found an immediately obvious answer. Investigation continues.
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      • Northwest Corner
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      • Oval Pond
      • Water System
      • South Side
      • Belfry
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      • Carshalton on Sea 2015
      • Maid of the Oaks 2007
      • Model Rail 2013
      • Museum Status 2007
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      • Spooky Afternoon 2015
      • WW1 Centenary 2014
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        • Horse Play 2007
        • Top Sutton Attraction 2007
        • VE Day 2007
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